Toronto Pinnacle Centre Condos | 161.84m | 55s | Pinnacle | P + S / IBI

[maestro]

C'mon! That lot is on the endangered list.

 

[Northern Magus]

Honestly, there's no way Torstar aren't looking at Maple Leaf Square and thinking of all the cash they could make from putting up at least one of their own 50s beauties on all that vacant space. Depending on how the economy goes over the next 12 months, I think we could see development plans within the next couple of years. The catalyst will probably be when the Queen's Quay revitalization actually gets underway.

 

[maestro]

IIRC, Torstar sold to a developer a while ago and the city has recently done a planning study for the property. I have no doubt something will happen sooner rather than later.

 

[yyzer]

33 Bay underway, pic by Jasonzed at SSC.....

plus a quote by Valantino at SSC........

33 Bay has applied for an increase to 50 storeys.

 

[Redroom Studios]

killer photo !!!!

 

[DaninToronto]

50 floors huh. They seem to be pretty gung ho about this development. Might be a bit too much for this area given Success right beside it.

 

[SunriseChampion]

Damn, I have a good friend who lives in that building at the bottom-right of yon photo so I'm in the area quite often and I had fallen in love with the bare concrete abandonment of it all.

My personal fascination with abandoned spaces and raw concrete aside, this is for the better....I guess

 

[Redroom Studios]

taken from inside my car while waiting at the light at Bay St...

 

[ganjavih]

Nice shots, but the words bland and sterile come to mind when I see those views.

 

[Solaris]

Nice shots, but the words bland and sterile come to mind when I see those views.

it is a grey gloomy day afterall ~

 

[Ramako]

I don't mind bland and sterile. Concrete is bland and sterile. What I mind is the lack of variation in styles and materials. In those shots, the buildings behind Success look like they form one giant, shapeless slab. From a purely visual inspection, I literally cannot tell how many buildings are in that photo.

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

Nice shots, but the words bland and sterile come to mind when I see those views.

It's like the Eggleton-era waterfront is marching north to meet the Miller-era downtown which is spreading south.

 

[adma]

Well, it's interesting how from a distance Pinnacle et al becomes virtually indistinguishable from the 2-decade-older World Trade Centre towers...

 

[MisterF]

I live at 18 Harbour (Success Tower) and we quit like it. You should be aware that this building has two separate addresses. The first 33 floors of Success Tower are registered as
18 Harbour Street and floors 34 to 53 are registered as 16 Harbour Street. Same building 2 addresses. Each address has it's own concierge desk and entry, and each address has
it's own set of elevators. We are on the 25th floor on the North East Corner, we do hear train traffic and traffic from the Gardiner, but it is more like 'white noise' and not a nuisance.
We do have noise problems from ACC, during concerts we can hear the throbbing deep base sounds, and during hockey games we distinctly hear the 'horn' when the Leafs score. We have
noticed that the Hockey broadcasts are delayed by 3 seconds. First we hear the horn blast from ACC, and 3 seconds later, on TSN, we see them score the goal.

This may be a bit of a tangent, but as a hockey fan that horn blast is one of my biggest pet peeves. Every time the home team scores they blast the horn in a misguided attempt to create excitement when all it does is drown out the fans. The Leafs were one of the last teams to start using it. They even do it at the Olympics now.

 

[CML]

Shot taken last Wednesday: